Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronstein, Dave Walbo and Ray Peters. Trooper Larry O'Toole of Jersey City said he was wounded not in action but emerging from a store, his tunic stuffed with tomatoes and a bottle of wine. Boasted Manhattan Negro Walter Garland, commander of a Leftist machine gun company: "We took three towns in a row without stopping to rest, fighting like demons...
Another 64 Soviet citizens were executed for "Trotskyism" last week. Dispatches passed by the Moscow censor described Joseph Stalin's hair as "rapidly greying," but the Dictator appeared unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election...
...side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker. It was well toward the end of May before the final murals complementing these on the back walls took shape and made the women on their way out after mass stop and weep and burn candles...
...National League team, picked by fans' votes, has provided plenty of celebrities but undistinguished baseball. This year the fans had no say in the team selections and Managers Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy, who managed last year's pennant-winning New York Giants and New York Yankees, took their jobs seriously...
...lithe, hawk-faced Cotton shot the first five holes of the final nine in four deliberate 45 and a 3, misputting only on the 18th for a 5. Needing only two more 45 and a 5 to win, he made the next two holes in 3 and 4, cautiously took 5 on the last, to finish with a par 71, topping Whitcombe by two strokes. He had won his second British Open championship when Lacey stormed in shortly afterward with a 72, to finish third...